On this day in history.

[Trebuchet]

May the Fourth be with you.

 

[AmyStrange]

TDIH for May 5th

1786
A great quantity of black eggs fell (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

1816
The Examiner publishes John Keats' first poem

1821
Napoleon dies in exile

1862
Cinco de Mayo: Outnumbered Mexican army defeats French at Battle of Puebla

1904
Cy Young pitches first perfect game in MLB history under modern rules

1905
Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case

1919
Italian delegates return to Paris peace conference

1921
Chanel No. 5 perfume launches

1945
Six killed in Oregon by Japanese bomb

1945
As the Nazi threat dies, the Red Army rises

1955
Allies end occupation of West Germany

1961
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

1981
IRA militant Bobby Sands dies

2002
Spider-Man becomes first movie to top $100 million in opening weekend

2004
Human remains found in suitcase near Virginia Beach

 

[Andy_Ross]

1945 Netherlands Liberation Day

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So where's the kid counting Germans from the garret room?

 

[Andy_Ross]

So where's the kid counting Germans from the garret room?

By that time? murdered in a concentration camp.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So the interviews with the kid (as an adult) are fabricated?

 

[jeremyp]

The political entity known as "Liechtenstein" has been around since the Early Middle Ages. Liechtenstein Castle dates back to the 12th century.

Not as an independent country. It was more like a feudal estate in the Holy Roman Empire.

 

[Andy_Ross]

So the interviews with the kid (as an adult) are fabricated?

Are we talking about Anne Frank?

What interviews?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

She was in Amsterdam, IIRC.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrEt5dX9flpMM4BvN4PxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1779198551/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pressreader.com%2fireland%2firish-daily-mail%2f20250507%2f282230901573816/RK=2/RS=YdEQ8qrD3K8MB2HXsUBjzy5vncM-

 

[Andy_Ross]

I'm not clicking on that

 

[Andy_Ross]

She was in Amsterdam, IIRC.

Are you thinking of Audrey Hepburn?
Born 1929
She worked with the Dutch Resistance, helped allied troops and barely survived the winter famine.

 

[Axxman300]

Happy Operation Nimrod Day to all who celebrate [not you, Iran].




"Six Days" is a solid movie too:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Six+Days++final+assault

 

[PitPat]

1934 – The first Three Stooges film is released

And we are still stuck with at least one of them.

 

[AmyStrange]

TDIH for May 6th

1876
The theft of Duchess of Devonshire painting stirs interest

1897
Alleged UFO sighting (Hot Springs, Arkansas USA)

1935
FDR creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

1937
The Hindenburg disaster

1940
John Steinbeck wins a Pulitzer for The Grapes of Wrath

1942
All American forces in the Philippines surrender unconditionally

1954
Roger Bannister runs first four-minute mile

1955
West Germany joins NATO

1966
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady convicted of the Moors Murders (Manchester, England)

1991
Harry Gant is oldest NASCAR winner—again

1992
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reviews Cold War in speech at Westminster College

1994
English Channel tunnel opens

2004
Final episode of Friends airs on NBC

2013
Ohio kidnap victims rescued after years in captivity

 

[PitPat]

1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and one on the ground

Oh the humanity! Saw a documentary on this recently and it's very fortuitous that not everybody was killed given the violence of the explosion.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and one on the ground

Oh the humanity! Saw a documentary on this recently and it's very fortuitous that not everybody was killed given the violence of the explosion.

It was a big ass balloon.

 

[AmyStrange]

TDIH for May 7th

1763
Ottawa Chief Pontiac's Rebellion against the British begins

1824
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 debuts

1843
First Japanese immigrant arrives in the U.S.

1896
Serial killer H.H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia

1915
German submarine sinks Lusitania

1945
Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims

1954
French defeated at Dien Bien Phu

1960
Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR

1994
Edvard Munch's The Scream recovered after theft

1998
Daimler-Benz announces purchase of Chrysler Corp.

 

[Pixel42]

On this day in 1926, David Attenborough was born.

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David.

David Attenborough: King and Queen lead tributes for 100th birthday

The royal couple shared photographs of Sir David and wished him a very happy birthday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AmyStrange]

TDIH for May 8th

1373
The English mystic, Lady Julian of Norwich, had a dream (Norwich, England)

1541
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi

1792
Militia Act establishes conscription under federal law

1846
Future president Zachary Taylor fights the Battle of Palo Alto

1864
General Lee's army beats Grant's Union troops to Spotsylvania

1884
Harry S. Truman is born

1902
Mount Pelée begins to erupt, burying Caribbean city

1919
New celebration of Armistice Day proposed

1945
High-ranking Nazi Hermann Göring is captured by the U.S. Seventh Army

1945
V-E Day is celebrated in America and Britain

1963
Sean Connery stars in his first Bond movie, Dr. No

1970
Nixon defends invasion of Cambodia

1973
American Indian Movement (AIM) ends occupation of Wounded Knee

1976
The theme song from Welcome Back, Kotter is the #1 song in America

1984
Soviets announce boycott of 1984 Olympics

2010
Betty White becomes oldest Saturday Night Live host